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U.S. war correspondents and 101st Airborne Division mingle with citizens of a coastal French town after Allied Invasion of France in World War 2

U.S. war correspondents traveling with the 101st Airborne shortly after the Invasion of France by Allied forces in the summer of 1944. Allied officers aboard a ship. Soldiers on a beach of coastal France. Town buildings rising up from the shore. A French woman holds a cat. A war correspondent and a soldier from the 101st Airborne look at pictures and smile. Town buildings along a street of a coastal French town. A barbed wire fence with a beach in the background. A Red Cross flag on an American jeep. Massive seawall fortifications separating the beach and the coastal French town. Children play, walking on the sea wall and playing in the sand of the beach. Allied soldiers confer inside a tent. Ships on the coastline. An American flag aboard a ship.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022057
Allied troops invade and advance in France during World War II.

Allied invasion of France during World War II. 4,000 Allied ships underway at sea towards the Cherbourg peninsula. Allied soldiers move down a net onto landing crafts on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Allied planes bombard the area and Naval artillery fires heavily. Scenes of various Allied Soldiers landing at Normandy beaches, including U.S. Army forces and British and Canadian forces. (Canadian forces landing at Juno Beach.) Troops wade through water. German assault from gun emplacements kills Allied soldiers during landing. Dead U.S. Army soldiers on the beach. Wounded soldiers provided medical aid by. German Prisoners of War marched away. A french man carries a U.S. flag near a group of U.S. soldiers at the "BERNIERES" station in the town of Bernières. Allied aircraft drop bombs over bridges and explosions occur. Heavier military equipment moved in by Allies. Allied troops advance in various towns of France. Captured German equipment piled up high. Supreme Commander General Eisenhower visits the area and is seen together with General Bradley and British Field Marshal Montgomery.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049350
Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs during an aerial raid of Mulhouse, France (WW2)

Allied bombers bombard railways in Mulhouse, France a month before the Normandy invasion (World War 2). Animated map shows the location of Mulhouse, near the Franco-German-Swiss border. Bombers flying to Mulhouse. United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers in flight. Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and North American P-51 Mustang fighters escort the heavy bombers while flying over France. A German fighter aircraft is shot down by a P-47 as seen from a distance. A German pilot is very faintly seen parachuting after ejecting from fighter. Two United States fighters fly away. Aerial view of Mulhouse, Belfort, and surrounding communes. Bombs dropping over Mulhouse and its freight yard. Pillars of smoke rise from Mulhouse. Another aerial raid to Mulhouse took place on May 25, 1944, two weeks after the initial raid. Aerial view of bombs dropping over Mulhouse. Thick clouds of smoke forms over Mulhouse freight yards. A formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers in flight.

Location: France
Date: 1944, May
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079835
U.S. Army Air Forces Troop Carrier crews assemble for briefing in Italy prior to the invasion of Southern France in World War II

American Troop Carrier crews gather for a briefing on August 14, 1944, the day before the Operation Dragoon invasion of Southern France, in World War 2. The captions then refer to their return to the United Kingdom later that month, and to the United States in October 1944. The air crews are seen assembled outdoors at an airfield in Italy. The weather is hot and some of them are shirtless. Some airmen are seen wearing Khaki shorts or singlets. Views of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan, New York City skyline, taken when some aircrew members returned to the United States in October 1944.

Location: Italy
Date: 1944, August 14
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058913
Montage of scenes related to role of 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and 9th Troop Carrier Command before D-day, World War II

U.S. soldiers wade ashore at Omaha Fox Green Beach on D-Day, from landing craft of USS Samuel Chase (APA 25). during the Invasion of France. An idyllic English village on June 5, 1944. C-47 aircraft towing a Waco CG-4 glider over shelters made of wooden shipping containers. "Shanty Town" written atop one tall structure. Glider being pulled out a shipping container. Soldiers moving into empty shipping container. Glimpse of their homemade barrack. soldiers eating a meal inside a shipping container shelter. Soldiers at barber shop. German defenses of the Atlantic Wall on the French coast. German gun crews drilling. German rail gun. Animated map of German fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Allied officers, including U.S. Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force and British Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, Commander, 2nd Tactical Air Force, in D-day planning. Airborne troops board buses and arrive at restricted airfields. Troops playing in jazz band; exercising on field; and playing volleyball. Paratroopers reading mail. Airmen painting invasion stripes for D-day on C-47 aircraft. French francs issued to paratroopers. Troopers sharpen knives and bayonets. Chaplains conduct religious services. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting 101st Airborne troopers. Airborne Pathfinders. Paratroopers march to C-47s, and don parachutes. Troopers of the 101st Airborne,506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Headquarters Company Demolition Section ("Filthy 13") in their Mohawk Indian haircuts. Clarence Ware puts war paint on Charles Plaudo, using still-wet paint from their C-47's D-day stripes. Heavily laden paratrooper help one another board airplanes. Pathfinder C-47s taking off at dusk, followed by all others, on June 5, 1944. formations of C-47s. Closeup of several planes. Paratroopers exiting C-47s. Formation of towed gliders. Gliders landing in field. Troops from gliders engaging in fire fights. Naval gun barrage.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 10 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045254
Allied liberation of Reims, France (WW2)

Armed French Resistance fighters pose near roadside sign at entrance to city of Reims, France, on August 30, 1944. American soldiers converse with French priests and Resistance fighters. Residents gather at the Royal Square by the statue of Louis XV. The towers of Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral (Pl. du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France) can be seen behind. An American soldier can be seen. A brief ceremony ensues in which French Resistance fighters appear to take responsibility for reoccupation of the city. They then proceed through the city on a truck with loudspeakers, making announcements. U.S. soldiers mingle with residents of the city. (World War II period)

Location: Reims France
Date: 1944, August
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055076
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